Hillhead Primary School, 21 Cecil Street, Hillhead, Glasgow

H and D Barclay, 1883, with additional attic by S Preston

1. School, classical with Greek detailing. 3 storeys, full

basement (rising to ground floor) and attic 15 x 3 main bays.

Stepped in slope. Polished ashlar, banding at ground floor.

Casement windows, T-pane glazing.

Central main entrance at head of steps with parapet walls.

3-bay section breaking forward, fluted pilastered entrance

with sidelights, panelled door. Architraved section above with

2 Ionic columns in antis, lettering in frieze "HILLHEAD HIGH

SCHOOL". Pedimented 3rd floor centre with caryatid busts on

fluted piers in antis.

Elliptically-arched basement windows with voussoirs in N bays,

entrance to right, architraved, console corniced with tablet

in frieze marked "BOYS" in relief lettering. Ground floor

level band course, plain windows with simple aprons. 1st

floor windows, 6 N bays anta pilastrade with aprons, linked

by independent cornice, 4 S bays recessed windows set in

semi-engaged Ionic collonade, linking cornice. Continuous

1st floor cornice, advanced over centre bays. 2nd floor dwarf

pilastrade windows in N bays, semi-engaged, dwarf Ionic

colonnade in S bays, parapet over, half-hipped attic.

N RETURN ELEVATION: continues detailing of main elevation, N

bays in 3 bays.

S RETURN ELEVATION: 3 ashlar bays with simple detailing.

Parapet, raised at angles. Plain rear and side elevations

of snecked rubble. Ashlar boundary wall. Cast-iron gates.

INTERIOR: cast-iron balusters to stairs and landings. Top-lit

entrance hall. Portrait of E E

Macdonald 1914 in Carrara marble by Fiaschi.